Meet our Makers

  • Jan Jacob and Anja Baak, Great Glen Charcuterie

    Jan Jacob and Anja Baak, Great Glen Charcuterie - Made Scotland

    The story of Great Glen Charcuterie always sounded an intriguing. A Dutch couple with six children, living in the Scottish Highlands, producing venison (that most Scottish of foods) charcuterie (not such a Scottish food). So how did it happen? “We...

  • Shearer Candles, Glasgow

    Shearer Candles, Glasgow - Made Scotland

    It’s a beautiful, colourful range of dinner candles that Glasgow-based Shearer Candles makes. The company has been a family business since it started making church candles back in 1897. It was bought two years ago by a Liverpool-based family business...

  • Dickon and Elly Green, Uig Lodge

    Dickon and Elly Green, Uig Lodge - Made Scotland

    In 1981, Dickon Green’s father and uncle lived in Worcester but were looking for a fishing place in Scotland. They found Uig Lodge, set in a stunning location on the Isle of Lewis and fell in love with the place....

  • Claire and John Mellor, Shibui Tea

    Claire and John Mellor, Shibui Tea - Made Scotland

    In lockdown you could go to Shibui’s website and send a card to a loved one, with a selection of 5 tea bags in it. Claire and John would handwrite your message into the card and it really took off....

  • Katherine Cowtan

    Katherine Cowtan - Made Scotland

    Her fine, colourful scarves are things of beauty and to think that Katherine Cowtan creates all of these colourful pieces on a loom in her workshop. “My roots are in being a creative person,” she says and this is clear...